Memetic warfare
Exploiting “People think in memes” and Fluency/Disfluency to recruit Clueless for an Ideology
E.g.: political talking points, slogans,
Meditation
A method for gaining liberation in the form of behavioral flexibility by popping up the stack of layered agents. Dissolving each agent into the ground. Initially the ground of the agent who generated it, ultimately into the ground of Reality).
Media
A platform that spreads Ideology.
Works because people don’t realize they’re fabricated, not a depiction of reality, and, like with VR, reflexively merge.
What Augustine said holds as true of media as of dreams: you first believe, then you understand (i.e. can question). The default is to believe, else it wouldn’t work.
Suspension of disbelief.
VR.
Media.
It enters fluently and it takes disfluency to question it.
Labels
The name of something and that something itself are two distinct things.
This is revealed by the fact that you can change something’s name without changing what it is, as revealed by the fact that the same thing has different names in different languages.
This seems obvious but people mess this up all the time. (See russell conjugation)
Another way people mess this up is by thinking of a thing through its name rather than its properties or parts. This also seems obvious but gets exploited because it works. See people who try to understand a thing by looking at its name or the composition of names it is constituted by (“domestic terrorists” exploit this, but also etymological analysis, or the dominant picture theory of language in philosophy - the idea you can ‘read off’ facts about objects, from the language used to refer to them).
Emptiness
The experience of emptiness is that of having what was just a moment before taken to be territory seen to have been map all around. What was thought to have parts is seen to just have been a label. Going from map to territory.
When Master Guishan was under Baizhang, he had the position of tenzo [cook]. Baizhang wanted to choose a master for Great Gui Mountain in the province of Konan. He called the head monk and the rest of his disciples together to have them present their views and said that the outstanding person should be sent.
Then he took a water jug, put it on the floor, and said, “You may not call this a water jug. What will you call it?” The head monk said, “It cannot be called a wooden sandal.” Baizhang then asked Guishan. Guishan immediately kicked over the water jug and left. Baizhang laughed and said, “First monk, you have been defeated by Guishan.” So he ordered Guishan to found the new monastery.
Deliberate Conflation
Deliberately conflating two terms under one name.
Might be done for pro-social/positive-sum reasons Two truths doctrine or for anti-social/mixed- or negative-sum reasons
Prime-target for Rectification of names.
Deliberately using the same word while meaning different things to paint one’s opponent as clinically insane to one’s base. A tool for memetic warfare
E.g.: In this video both people paints the other one as crazy: as if one were claiming that transmen can’t get pregnant (objectively false) and the other that [cis] men can get pregnant (objectively false).
E.g.: Using “normal” to deliberately conflate a behavior that is judged to be “good” with a behavior that is judged to be “common” in an attempt to get people who sync to common belief to Syncing to Common Belief to it.
E.g. “Black lives matter” (the statement) and “Black Lives Matter” (the org). It seemed for a bit that not being pro the org was the same as disagreeing with the statement.